Sports Editor, Stillwater, OK

Sports Editor: The Stillwater NewsPress, a 7 day CNHI award-winning newspaper in Stillwater, home of Oklahoma State University, seeks an energetic sports editor who is ready to take our college and preps coverage to unmatched levels. In Stillwater, you'll have a staff of 2 to cover a Big 12 university and several successful high schools. You must be ready to lead that staff, design awesome pages and write great stories to go on those pages. You must be committed to immediate multimedia presentations. Knowledge of Quark, Photoshop necessary. Knowledge of iMovie, online software programs puts you in front. Stillwater is a fast-growing community in a city where everything is orange, even the buses. Send resumes to prnelson@cnhi.com

2under and I thought the same ... A staff of THREE in a D-1 college town virtually ensures sub-standard Cowboys coverage. Not to mention sub-standard high school coverage in an attempt to pay ANY attention to the Cowboys. And design? Please. Projects? Hah!

"The SE can write as much as he/she wants", to me, is code for "do you prefer a 60- or 70-hour week?"

Due respect, Cornflakes, but I have worked in similar markets before. Three FT peeps covering BCS-level athletics + high schools simply CANNOT cut it. Say one (which is a HUGE stretch, and results in, at best, mediocre work ...) Stays back to draw lines on a Saturday night. That leaves two at the stadium. For me, and I have a smidge of experience with this, that is about half of what you need to do a solid job.

It's not really a large town by university city standards. Not sure what the circ is, but I've been there several times.

So, no they aren't going to scoop the Oklahoman on OSU stuff and they aren't going to have 8 stories on every football game. They just don't have the space, or the staff. It is what it is: a small daily that just happens to be located in a university town.

That being said, it would be a damn good opportunity for someone who is passionate about college sports but isn't getting a shot at some metro. You could shape coverage however you wanted: gamers, features, notes, columns, blogs, video, etc. Not sure what the travel budget is, but most places in the Big 12 are driveable, so that would be a plus.

If you're big into college sports and like that part of the country (neither of which is true for me), I would check into this.

Due respect, Cornflakes, but I have worked in similar markets before. Three FT peeps covering BCS-level athletics + high schools simply CANNOT cut it. Say one (which is a HUGE stretch, and results in, at best, mediocre work ...) Stays back to draw lines on a Saturday night. That leaves two at the stadium. For me, and I have a smidge of experience with this, that is about half of what you need to do a solid job.

Three isn't enough. Not even by half, if you ask me.

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Two at the stadium at home would be about all you'd ever get. Probably no more than one on the road. Heck, the whole section probably isn't more than 4-5 pages. Where are you going to put all the glowing prose you write?

Even though you are a hometown paper, you're never going to be any better than No. 3 in the market (behind OKC and Tulsa) when it comes to OSU stuff. I suspect management realizes that and accepts its lot in life accordingly.